your value

I read the other day, that the Sabbath is the one time to be away from work, the one day
when you stop and realize that you are not a number, not a slave to any system, and most importantly NOT what you do!

Your value lies in who you are.

While I know this, and believe it is the essential message for all the children I come in contact with as an educator and all the people I come in contact with as a girl who says hi when she meets someone in passing on the street, I have not let myself accept it. At least not fully. I know I haven't because if I had – if I really believed I mattered right here, right now, without employment, far from friends and invisible to the town I'm in, then I'd be healed. I'd be fine. I'd be working on some secret dream, with a great big smile inside - and I would be free!!

It seems, you have to Let people love you. You have to Let God love you.

So, dearly beloved, because You are...

let yourself be loved.